Action for alienation of affection, breach of promise, criminal conversation and seduction abolished
Applied in 27 court decisions — leading case Nelson v. Jacobsen (1983)
Most recently applied in Peter v. Langley (November 2014)
Code 1950, § 20-37.2; 1968, c. 716; 1974, c. 606; 1977, c. 617.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no civil action shall lie or be maintained in this Commonwealth for alienation of affection, breach of promise to marry, or criminal conversation upon which a cause of action arose or occurred on or after June 28, 1968.
B. No civil action for seduction shall lie or be maintained where the cause of action arose or accrued on or after July 1, 1974.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.